VGN Small Awards and Use Facility Awards

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If you are interested in applying for a Small Award, contact the Baccalaureate Partner Institution (BPI) Coordinator to discuss your proposal submission. All Small Award applications must be submitted to the VGN email address (vgn@uvm.edu) by the BPI Coordinator.

We have had good run funding small awards for release time, students, equipment and more. However, we have come to the point where these awards must be made on a competitive basis. Therefore, we will now make small awards in a competitive manner, with all small award applications for the next grant year due on July 1, 2019.

The original intent of the small award was to help faculty free up time for publishing, research and proposal writing. While on July 1 we will accept small award applications for other purposes, freeing of faculty time will be our highest priority for small awards. As before you may apply for two small awards if they are for release time for two courses.

Purpose:

Small Awards are for up to $5,000 to support NIH-fundable activities.

The purpose of the Small Award is NOT to subvert the Pilot or Project Awards and allow faculty to avoid critical review or avoid required reporting. There will be a maximum of two Small Awards per faculty member per year.

It is possible to bundle two Small Awards for course release support up to $10,000. If two Small Awards are bundled for this purpose, the faculty member must receive release time for two courses. Only one application and outcomes report are required in this instance.

Eligibility:

Full-time tenure track faculty members from our BPIs whose research is of interest and fundable by the NIH are eligible. While priority will be given to early career faculty, faculty members who have graduated from the VGN program are eligible to apply.

Proposal Format:

All submissions must be on PHS 398 forms and include a signature from the appropriate institutional official. The following pages can be downloaded from this site: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html. The only exception is the Face Page, for which the following provided document should be used. Please note that all dates in the application must be identical.